25 April, 2014 A harm online A number of countries, primarily China and Israel, are part of the wider picture behind conflicts over water between Upper Nile Basin countries and their downstream counterparts, writes Maghawry Shehata Nile Basin countries — especially…
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25 April, 2014 A harm online A number of countries, primarily China and Israel, are part of the wider picture behind conflicts over water between Upper Nile Basin countries and their downstream counterparts, writes Maghawry Shehata Nile Basin countries — especially…
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24 April 2014 Cairo (AFP) – Egypt’s foreign minister Nabil Fahmy was travelling to the United States on Wednesday, his ministry said, a day after Washington decided to provide Cairo with 10 Apache military helicopters. Washington had imposed a temporary…
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By Russian Space Web April 23, 2014 A Soyuz rocket with Egyptsat-2 satellite around one hour before launch on April 16, 2014. A Russian rocket launched a new-generation surveillance spacecraft Wednesday designed to give the Egyptian military a powerful “eye in…
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23 April 2014 By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s bold decision to pay for a huge dam itself has overturned generations of Egyptian control over the Nile’s waters, and may help transform one of the world’s poorest countries…
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By Alemayehu G Mariam April 21, 2014 Last week, in a bizarre display of faux outrage and indignation, the regime in Ethiopia unleashed its big “experts” to go afterInternational Rivers, an organization that has been leading the global struggle to…
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21 April 2014 Al Jazeera While construction of Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam continues apace, downstream neighbour Egypt is crying foul. In the three years since construction began on the 1.8km Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam across the Blue Nile River, Egypt…
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21 April 2014 Somaliland Press Egypt is threatening Sudan’s safety by blocking international loans for Ethiopia’s hydro-dam, said Sudan’s top official of Eastern Blue Nile State Hussein Ahmad. According to the Sudanese mp, cash-strapped Ethiopia will end up shortcutting the…
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21 April 2014 World Bulletin / News Desk Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church Abune Mathias has indefinitely postponed a visit he was scheduled to pay to Cairo on Friday upon a request from the Egyptian Orthodox Church, a source…
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Ethiopia’s ‘logic’ behind the construction of the Renaissance Dam is shocking, perhaps even more so than the issue of the dam itself By Ahmed El-Sayed Al-Naggar , Ahram Online Addis Ababa is either unaware of such a thing as international…
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